concours de beauté
\kɔ̃.kuʁ də bo.te\
The verdict
“concours de beauté” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Compétition pour choisir la plus belle participante (ou plus rarement le plus beau participant), d’une ville, d’une région, d’un pays.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concours de beauté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.kuʁ də bo.te\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “concours de beauté” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
concours de beauté is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.kuʁ də bo.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Compétition pour choisir la plus belle participante (ou plus rarement le plus beau participant), d’une ville, d’une région, d’un pays.".
concours de beauté doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is concours de beauté, spelled C-O-N-C-O-U-R-S- -D-E- -B-E-A-U-T-É.
Definition
- 1Compétition pour choisir la plus belle participante (ou plus rarement le plus beau participant), d’une ville, d’une région, d’un pays.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “concours de beauté”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-C-O-U-R-S- -D-E- -B-E-A-U-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɔ̃.kuʁ də bo.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.